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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. 3 or 4 notes played simultaneously in harmony.
Accelerando
Accessible
Fifth
Chord
2. Music that is written and performed without regard to any specific key.
Whole-tone scale
Atonal
Cantata
System
3. Unmusical - without tone.
Tone less
Portamento
Accessible
Waltz
4. A composition written for three voices and instruments performed by three people
Trio
Partita
Chord
Deceptive cadence
5. A form of writing for vocals that is close to the manner of speech and is rhythmically free.
A cappella
Recitative
Drone
Major
6. A song or hymn celebrating Christmas.
Carol
Relative pitch
Song cycle
Intermezzo
7. A successive transposition and repetition of a phrase at different pitches.
Gavotte
Sequence
A cappella
Tessitura
8. Music composed such that each note is used the same number of times.
Concert master
Expressionism
Treble
Twelve-tone music
9. Elaborate polyphonic composition of the Boroque and Renaissance periods.
Cadence
Grave
Grandioso
Ricercar
10. Lowest female singing voice.
Opus
Contralto
Energico
Reed
11. Music that is written and performed without regard to any specific key.
Sonata
Atonal
Treble
Interpretation
12. Word to indicate that the movement or entire composition is to be played smoothly.
Chord progression
Mezzo
Chord
Legato
13. The period of music history which dates from the mid 1700's to mid 1800's. The music was spare and emotionally reserved - especially when compared to Romantic and Boroque music.
Gregorian Chant
Part
Classical
Voice
14. The seventh note of the scale where there is a strong desire to resolve on the tonic.
Clavier
Allegro
Leading note
Energico
15. A harmonic given off by a note when it is played.
Rubato
Partial
Minor
Opera
16. A composition written for a solo instrument. The soloist plays the melody while the orchestra plays the accompaniment.
Ligature
Monotone
Concerto
Classicism
17. Tones used to embellish the principal melodic tone.
Modes
Adagio
Ornaments
Treble
18. Dull - monotonous tone such as a humming or buzzing sound. Also a bass note held under a melody.
Grazioso
Drone
Sextet
Flat
19. A 19th century square dance written for 4 couples.
Presto
Rococo
Quadrille
Ostinato
20. A book of text containing the words of an opera.
Tonality
Libretto
Chord
Conductor
21. The interval between two notes. Two whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
Song cycle
Triad
Fourth
Tonic
22. To repeat a previous part of a composition generally after other music has been played.
Drone
Time Signature
Triad
Reprise
23. A set of four musicians who perform a composition written for four parts.
Romantic
Quartet
Ostinato
March
24. The manner in which tones are produced with regard to pitch.
Tritone
Slide
Intonation
Flat
25. Initially an improvised cadence by a soloist; later becoming an elaborate and written out passage in an aria or concerto - featuring the skills of an instrumentalist or vocalist.
Pizzicato
Maestro
Time Signature
Cadenza
26. Ability to determine the pitch of a note as it relates to the notes that precede and follow it.
Relative pitch
EnharmonicInterval
Tutti
Instrumentation
27. Singing or chanting in unison without strict rhythm. Collected during the Reign of Pope Gregory VIII for psalms and other other parts of the church service.
Fermata
Rhythm
Galliard
Gregorian Chant
28. Refers to any great composer - conductor - or teacher of music.
Maestro
Unison
System
Scherzo
29. The expression the performer brings when playing his instrument.
Grazioso
Interpretation
Galliard
Development
30. A portion of the range of the instrument or voice.
Grazioso
Register
Tempo
Musette
31. The range of an instrumental or a vocal part.
Clef
Tessitura
Nonet
Cadence
32. Often used in overtures - a composition that uses passages from other movements of the composition in its entirety.
Medley
Tone less
Tremolo
Classical
33. A repeated phrase.
Tempo
System
Ostinato
Chord
34. A symbol in sheet music a direction to play energetically.
Recitative
Whole-tone scale
Madrigal
Energico
35. Combination of two or more keys being played at the same time.
Polytonality
Minuet
Quadrille
Counterpoint
36. Music that is easy to listen to and understand.
Accessible
Sharp
Octave
Classical
37. One of two or more parts in polyphonic music. Voice refers to instrumental parts as well as the singing voice.
Tonal
Glissando
Voice
Tonal
38. Groups of tones that are harmonious when sounded together as in a chord.
Flat
Consonance
Atonal
Falsetto
39. The raising and lowering a pitch of an instrument to produce the correct tone of a note.
Tuning
Tonality
Gavotte
Vibrato
40. The keyboard of a stringed instrument.
Adagio
Clavier
Triad
Flat
41. A composition written for a solo instrument. The soloist plays the melody while the orchestra plays the accompaniment.
Concerto
Triple time
Rubato
Modes
42. System of notes or tones based on and named after the key note.
Concert master
Key
Glee
Sextet
43. A tempo having slow movement; restful at ease.
Da Capo
Minuet
Adagio
Impromptu
44. Primary theme or subject that is developed.
Tempo
Notation
Prelude
Motif
45. To shift to another key.
Grave
Tremolo
Modulation
String Quartet
46. Made up of five horizontal parallel lines and the spaces between them on which musical notation is written.
Adagio
Polyphony
Courante
Staff
47. A chord progression that seems to lead to resolving itself on the final chord; but does not.
Sonata
Deceptive cadence
Tessitura
Waltz
48. Vocal composition written for three or more solo parts - usually without instrumental accompaniment.
Septet
Tonality
Glee
Instrumentation
49. Written for 2 to 10 solo parts featuring one instrument to a part. Each part bears the same importance.
Accelerando
Chamber music
Twelve-tone music
Tonal
50. Creating variation pitch in a note by quickly alternating between notes.
Partial
Allegro
Tremolo
Vibrato
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